Wednesday, August 28, 2013

about my squirmy

Born: 17 Jul 2013, Wednesday
Weight: 2.72 kg
Length: 48.5 cm
Time: 4:44 pm

Place: Operation theater of Hospital KPJ Kajang

Aahh..my little squirmy..who would have known that he will be born on 17 Jul 2013, during my routine gynae check-up?

The c-section wasn't planned.

He was already in position, head down, facing backwards. But then he wasn't moving much on Monday and Tuesday. His peak time was usually 7-8pm, but there was no sign of activity on those days. So I decided to mention this to my gynae. At first, she said everything was normal after the routine ultrasound. But there was a pause after checking the blood flow within the cord. Then she said ' Let's go to the Labour Room'. 

I was nervous but trying not to show it. I could feel that actually I was not ready to deliver yet and was praying that we were protected from the worse that could happen.

At the Labour Room, after around 2 hours of waiting with the CTG device around my tummy, my gynae decided to induce me. My little squirmy's tracings was not showing a good pattern. Each time I had a contraction ( I didn't even realize I had a contraction), it dropped to around 70 bpm. 

I thought I still had hope for a normal delivery after induction. It was then only realized how a contraction felt like. However, induction failed. I only opened 1.5 cm max and the progress was too slow.

So to the OT I went.

Turns out  his cord was small and it almost wrapped itself around his neck.

My poor squirmy!